Sentencing advocacy : principles and strategy / Hon. C.J. Williams.
"To ensure a fair criminal trial, effective sentencing advocacy is needed in every stage of prosecution, from investigation through plea, trial and sentencing hearings. With fewer criminal cases proceeding to trial, advocacy is increasingly critical for both prosecutors and defense attorneys an...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- The importance of effective sentencing advocacy
- Principles of judicial advocacy
- The goals of sentencing
- Statutory and guidelines provisions
- Scope of a criminal sentence
- Sentencing advocacy before guilt determination
- Stages in the sentencing process
- Objecting to presentence investigation reports
- Sentencing memoranda
- Preparing for sentencing hearings
- Conducting sentencing hearings
- Evidentiary sentencing hearings
- Departures for substantial assistance
- Other departures
- Variances
- Fines
- Forfeiture
- Restitution
- Supervised release
- Collateral sentencing consequences
- Argument by counsel
- Victims
- Allocution
- Imposition of sentence and judgment
- Challenging judgment before appeal
- Sentencing advocacy and the audience
- Sentencing organizations
- Advocacy in supervised release revocation hearings
- Advocacy in probation revocation hearings
- Conclusion : final observations about sentencing advocacy.